Latin America - AAIHS

A Country of Their Own: An American Ex-Slave’s Search for Homeland in Panama

While wandering through the maze of microfilm one afternoon at the Archivo General de la Nación in Bogotá, Colombia, I

This is a guest post by Yesenia Barragan, a historian of race, slavery, and emancipation in Colombia, Afro-Latin America, and

For centuries, black men and women have struggled for economic, social, and cultural rights under the banner of Pan-Africanism—the political

This month I interviewed Dr. Guadalupe García about her new book Beyond the Walled City: Colonial Exclusion in Havana (University

“Wait, what!? How do you even teach this kind of history?” “What kind of texts do you use in class?”